Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.